BREAKING
Home » Posts Tagged "California" (Page 7)

Lyme disease: Study shows ticks carrying disease found to be abundant in beach areas

By

Bay Area Lyme Foundation today announced results of a study demonstrating that adult Western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) carrying Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease,...

Salmonella Duisburg outbreak linked to Jule’s Cashew Brie, Two hospitalized

By

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported five people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Duisburg, a rare Salmonella serotype,...

Los Angeles: First reported cases of the South African and Brazilian variant

By

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Los Angeles County health officials have reported one case of the South African variant, B.1.351, and three cases of the Brazilian P.1 variant, both variants of concern. Authorities...

COVID-19 B.1.1.7 variant on its way to becoming the dominant variant in the United States

By

The faster-spreading B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in the United Kingdom, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is quickly on its way to becoming the dominant variant of the virus in the...

California: Four wound botulism cases linked to heroin injection reported in Los Angeles County

By

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Los Angeles County health officials identified four cases of suspected wound botulism associated with heroin injection in February 2021. Two of the cases possibly used the same...

Southern California COVID-19 strain, CAL.20C, spreads across the country, around the world

By

A new strain of the coronavirus in Southern California, first reported last month by Cedars-Sinai, is rapidly spreading across the country and around the world as travelers apparently carry the virus with...

COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7, now reported in 21 states

By

By News Desk  @bactiman63 Viruses constantly change through mutation, and new variants of a virus are expected to occur over time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reminds us. The...

San Diego Zoo reports gorillas test positive for SARS-CoV-2

By

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Members of the Gorilla Troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive for coronavirus and were quarantined, in the first known case of Covid-19 transmission in these...

San Diego reports 3 additional cases of new COVID-19 strain

By

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up report from earlier this week in California, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported three new cases of the United Kingdom variant of COVID-19,...

First Case of United Kingdom Coronavirus Variant Detected in California

By

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has been notified by San Diego County Public Health Services of a patient with the variant COVID-19 virus strain originally detected in the United Kingdom. This...